Abu Ya'qub al-Sijistani

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Abu Yaqub al-Sijistani (Persian: ابو یعقوب سجستانی) (active 971 CE) was an Persian Ismaili missionary and Neo-Platonic philosopher, who died sometime around 971 CE (358 AH).[1]

Notes

  1. ^ P.E. Walker, "ABŪ YAʿQŪB SEJESTĀNĪ" in Encyclopaedia Iranica

Further reading

  • Paul Ernest Walker (1993). Early Philosophical Shiism: the Ismaili Neoplatonism of Abu Ya'qub al-Sijistani. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-44129-3.
  • Paul Ernest Walker (1994). The Wellsprings of Wisdom: A Study of Abu Yaqub Al-Sijistani's Kitab Al-Yanabi. Univ of Utah Pr (Tx). ISBN 0-87480-421-3.

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